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This is the show for busy oil pros who want to quickly keep their finger on the pulse of the industry.

Thanks for joining us for episode 320.

Before we get into everything today, I wanted to address why we haven't

released in a couple of weeks. For the past month, Mark and I have been harassed by a very

unhinged individual. And in the past week and a half, this individual has become threatening.

So we came to a point and had charges that have been

filed with law enforcement. So I just want to let everybody know. And that's all we're going to

talk about it with regards to that. And audience, we're fine. Yeah, we're fine. And not only are we

fine, audience, but thank you. And you may be going, why is Mark thanking us?

Because this show, Alleng Guys This Week, just broke 2 million listeners, which is a record in our space. So thanks to each, every one of you.

Thank you for the listeners that have been with us for years. Thank you for the listeners that just joined us in the last week or so.

Or maybe you're

listening to this the first time. So this is by far. And I mean by far, the largest oil

and gas podcast in the world with over two million listeners by itself. Yeah.

Listeners in every single country on the planet. Pretty cool. So thank y'all.

Yes. Thank you. Without y'all listening, just be Paige not talking to ourselves, which would be weird.

Yeah.

Although we do do it. As long as we don't answer ourselves, I think that's all right, right? Yeah. And we got a review. You already? Yeah, five stars. Love the show. I've been listening to the show for a while, but wanted to leave a review because I really enjoyed the October 11th episode with a discussion of the possibility of hydrocarbons on Mars.

I don't know if you ever watched the National Geographic series called Mars from 2016, 2018,

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